129: Unlocking the Healthcare Digital Transformation with Paddy Padmanabhan, MBA

The Healthcare QualityCast

Paddy is an award-winning business leader and trusted C-suite Advisor with a proven history of success in guiding digital transformation and growth strategies across the healthcare and technology sectors. He has worked in a variety of leadership roles at globally recognized firms such as Accenture, GE, and Wipro where he built large global technology businesses and spearheaded strategic growth initiatives. He has also been in Silicon Valley start-ups that went through successful exits. Paddy is widely considered a thought leader and expert practitioner in healthcare digital transformation. Paddy is the co-author of Healthcare Digital Transformation – How Consumerism, Technology, and Pandemic are Accelerating the Future (Taylor & Francis, Aug 2020), along with Edward W. Marx. Paddy is also the author of the best-selling book The Big Unlock – Harnessing Data and Growing Digital Health Businesses in a Value-based Care Era (Archway Publishing, 2017). He is the host of the highly subscribed The Big Unlock podcast on digital transformation in healthcare featuring C-level executives from the healthcare and technology sectors. He is widely published and has a by-lined column in CIO Magazine and other respected industry publications. Paddy is a graduate of the executive management program of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, and a B.S. in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. He is a graduate of the executive education program on data and analytics strategy from Harvard Medical School and holds a CPHIMS certification from the HIMSS organization. Paddy is a Board Advisor and investor in several startups and has held Board positions in voluntary and not-for-profit organizations. Here in Episode #129, Paddy shares great insights on the path in developing as an industry thought leader of healthcare technology strategies. Paddy gives us a master class level overview on the inner workings of digital healthcare transformation and shares with us 3 key takeaways that healthcare leaders should have on their radar as it relates to digital healthcare transformation. He highlights how the pandemic has given digital technology strategies a much-needed boost across the industry. Paddy shares how organizations approach technology procurement in a strategic manner. He highlights the leadership mindset needed to bounce back from failure and define success for his teams. Paddy gives us a breakdown of the digital technologies that he's excited about. He outlines the top challenges and opportunities that emerging healthcare leaders will face moving forward; and underlines his key attributes for being a successful data-driven healthcare leader. · Connect with Paddy on LinkedIn · Plug Into Paddy’s Work · Subscribe to The Big Unlock Podcast · Access the Healthcare QualityCast LinkedIn Group · Leaves Us a Rating · Earn Your Lean Six Sigma for Healthcare Certification · Request a Corporate Demo of our online QI Academy --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/healthcarequalitycast/message